#toast watches fantastic journey to oz

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ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

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Tropical Thunder

The Journey North

I'm not talking of a Game of Thrones journey north, where the bitter cold whips one's bones to the brittle core as they pass beyond The Wall and into the icy depths of the unforgiving wildling realms. No. A nice gentle tropical journey north towards the equator, where beaches and tourists are plentiful, the palm trees nestled along an expansive Pacific coastline and the state of relaxation knows no bounds as yet another shrimp is procured from the figurative barbie. Stereotypes aside, the East Coast is fun, but a little too popular and similar at times. You have to make it your own, with good travel mates and a random journey.

Fresh from my incredible holiday in Vanuatu, I left Sydney with Yusuke on 11 September, excited to jump in the Nissan and plough northwards. I had to be in Cairns (2400km away) in 9 days for my new job. We didn't bother messing about too much in New South Wales, as we'd both spent a lot of time here and seen all we wanted to see. We Byron Bayed for a night, and enjoyed the tremendous views on offer there, before a short jump over the Queensland border to Brisbane, where we spent two nights and almost got towed.

The real journey into the unknown began after this, along with an epic 14-hour driving day where we ended up talking to a local woman about the effects of the recent cyclone in Rockhampton (which lies on the Tropic of Capricorn) and eventually reached Airlie Beach. Its electric atmosphere was unfortunately wasted on us tired travellers, as all we wanted to do was go to bed and shovel food down without the pressure and distraction of hostel kitchen chit-chat. Of course, we were awoken by an Aussie guy screaming – “I'll fucken' cut ye open, yer cunt!” – to a guy who had boldly told him to quieten down. Next day was the legendary Whitsunday Islands trip. All prior knowledge about this archipelago and national park had conjured up images of a calm sandy paradise, but we were in for a huge surprise as it turned out to be the ferry ride from hell and one of the roughest sea journeys I've ever experienced. I'm never sure whether I'm just being overly affected by things (scientifically known as OABT Syndrome), but it was bumpy as. Whitehaven Beach was a real treat, however.

It was more driving, driving in our car, north past the dispersing Great Dividing Range and glinty inland sunsets, through forests and fields, over sugar cane train tracks and past vast banana plantations. Townsville & Magnetic Island was the highlight of the trip for me. Mostly because the hostel was good quality – a good balance between social and quiet – and we met spirited Dutch Oz-newbie Jenny, who joined us for the sunset hike up Castle Rock, a towering and majestic hill over Townsville. The Maggie Island daytrip involved joining forces with Jenny's friend Lizzy, renting a mini open-top 4x4, a hot hike past wild koalas to WWII fortifications (I think I bored the others with any over-zealous talk of wartime history), one incredible sunset at West Point, a shy echidna and two brown tree snakes.

Cairns

Named after Irishman & Governor of Queensland, William Wellington Cairns, and unpronounceable without adopting an Aussie accent, this modest city of 140,000 inhabitants is a surprisingly pumping tourist mega-hotspot. Go more than 200m from the ocean and everything basically becomes shit (e.g. classic highways lined with industrial outlets and nothingy commercial suburbs), but the heart of the city is the marina and downtown area. Despite a smaller size, it has a nightlife to compete with most other Australian cities and a huge mix of nationalities. Steamy nights at Salt House, Pier Bar, The Reef Casino, Three Wolves and even The Woolshed will stay with me for a long time. The gorgeous green hills provide a tropical backdrop, and the Trinity Inlet is a beautiful spot to the south, while the beachside suburbs to the north – Trinity Beach, Kewarra, Palm Cove to name just three – are incredibly chilled out and enjoyable. Fishing with fun work-mates Max, Tun & Rankin on a boat trip up the river was a real privilege; as well as trips to Shangri-La's North Bar overlooking the marina with ex-Pullmanites and great friends Caitlin & Davide; the work-mate pool party at Caitlin & Max's house with poker and Cards Against Humanity was yet another reminder that this is not a normal life for an Englishman.

Nothing makes you feel more like you're in the tropics than the pungent smell of bat shit outside the Cairns Library, where hundreds of them gather before fleeing and feeding across the night sky. They are the animal that most represent Cairns for me, along with the ominous curlew, a gangly and awkward flightless bird that drifts in a ghostly way by night. I discovered the city by bicycle and was able to experience the city in all its hot, heavy, pungent glory.

The Winkworth Way

I moved in to 45 Winkworth Street in the western suburbs, paying $135 per week for a single room with a double-bed and air-conditioning. It was by far the best accommodation I've had in Australia. I loved the house for its airy openness and traditional Queenslander ambience, but mostly because of the fantastic people I lived with. I don't say this often, because I generally seem to end up in accommodation that's less than ideal. We were all travellers in the house, and all worked a lot so often wouldn't see each other for days at a time. But that made it all the more special when we did meet and hang out. There was Yukie, a Japanese lady from downstairs who dropped her keys in a bush when she fell down the stairs drunk one time; Ander from the Basque Country, who enjoys parties, bed bugs and violently offering biscuits as well as taking me on some excellent and fun day-trips; Leonie whose surname and town of origin (Ter Stege and Enschede respectively) Ander and I always enjoyed repeating back to her in a Dutch accent for immature amusement, who works too much but has a heart of gold; Tim, an Austin Powersy German dive instructor and goon connoisseur as well as a valued source of Stephen Colbert episodes; and Kacie from Texas, who is a rock of a friend and proves the Trump-American stereotypes wrong with a kind, fair outlook on life, and loves Australia if only it weren't for the cockroaches constantly falling on her head.

Even Andrew, the landlord, was pretty cool. Except for the occasions when he simply could not stop swearing in anger for minutes at a time, over some trivial thing that's happened with the roof or his phone. “Oh no. You baaastard!”

Pullmania

Working took up the bulk of my time. 39% of my waking hours over three months in Cairns were spent in the Pullman Cairns International Hotel. I actually calculated it. I had transferred up here from Sydney to fill the same role (a Food & Beverage Attendant, in Banquets), so technically should have known what I was doing. However, a few factors made PCI more challenging than PSHP: the climate was hotter, the furniture heavier, and many of the events much bigger and more challenging. It was a hectic & sweaty 3 months, and below I've chosen some events to paint a picture:

Friday 22 September: my first shift. I found my way through the labyrinthine back-of-house corridors in time for briefing, simultaneously meeting my manager, Karen, and the staff working tonight (most of the banquets team). In addition, we had lots of staff from Coco's (the restaurant in the lobby) and Staffing Solutions (a hospitality agency). I was behind the main bar with Italian sage Davide for a 400-pax cocktail reception, meaning canapés and free drinks for a bunch of lairy let-loose corporate types. Since it was the pool-deck, we couldn't serve glass bottles, so had to pour every single beer into a plastic cup. The queue was infinite, with murmurs of disapproval when not getting served immediately, and over the fact they had to drink beer out of plastic glasses. The struggle was very real and lasted for hours: one guy simply sighed, while another shook his head and laughed in disgust at my occasionally over-foamy beers. An arrogant racktastic blonde kept appearing at the bar, clicking her fingers and demanding to be served her rum & Coke (she knew it was my first day and that I would be a soft touch). I really felt shell-shocked when the event finally ended, and then overwhelmed with fatigue and frustration for the next few hours when we had to replace all of the furniture and polish all of the glasses we'd used tonight, which took us until 2am. 10-hour physical shift, no breaks. I soon realised this was not unusual.

Tiffany & Gareth: The Unhappy Bride. The grand ballroom was used to host the wedding reception of Tiffany and Gareth, an aboriginal couple who had married earlier today. Most of the guests were indigenous, too, and I always enjoyed doing events with aboriginal people, since I had seldom met any during my time in the South-East. However, Tiffany decided she wanted to ruin her own day by complaining about everything and causing problems in a truly bogan manner. Why didn't everyone have champagne for the toast!? This wasn't what I asked for on the buffet! Why are people getting too many free drinks!? Why did I get married!? The banquets team was on edge, and people snapped at each other, while our trooper of a supervisor, Shontelle, bore the brunt of the complaints (she had met with Tiffany several times before the event, and none of the things she was complaining about had ever been mentioned). She wanted a Fairytale Wedding, but wasn't the fairytale bride.

Melbourne Cup Day: I hadn't slept well the night before, and my body and mind weren't ready for a rare daytime shift. Some of the richest people in Cairns came to the hotel to mingle with fellow poshos over lunch, look fancy and watch the Melbourne Cup horse race on big TV screens. I was put in the fenced-off VIP section with my Team Leader, Harumi. All we had to do was pour drinks for them, or fetch beers from the bar, then clear their plates when they were finished with their buffet lunch. But things went wrong early on when I opened a bottle of champagne and the cork literally flew up to hit the ceiling, bouncing off it and landing in someone's lap on the other side of the ballroom. I could have melted with embarrassment, but played it off as the fault of the bottle (“she was a fizzy one!”) to the gawkingly judgemental woman I was serving. Luckily, neither the General Manager of the hotel, my F&B Manager nor the Banquets Manager had noticed, but I still felt traumatised and on-edge for the rest of the day. I over-compensated by being especially servile and smiley, and somehow managed to gain a $10 tip for my efforts. It was a horrible shift and I felt very alone. Some staff, like Tun, were supportive, patient and helpful, some were less understanding, while others simply didn't care. I hate the pressure not to mess up in these kind of VIP environments, constantly being on display and concentrating hard not to bump into stuff, drop things or spill drinks (difficult for me). And to look busy, even if you're inconveniencing the customer by reaching over unnecessarily to grab that one extra glass. It made me question whether the job was for me. But is this my career? Hell no. I decided to try meditation to relieve stress, which was reaching unhealthy levels during some shifts, like this one. It would have been nice to have some kind of feedback on your work, and to be told you had done well, or how to improve in certain areas. But that didn't seem to happen much here.

Other stories:

The Scotland Rugby League team & the hype of the Rugby League World Cup being in town: we served them dinner and lunch. I was surprised that almost all of them were actually from the Midlands and northern England!

When we had four Christmas parties on four floors at the same time: I did the one on the pool-deck with Abi, serving 30 insurance workers drinks and dinner and watching them get merry and sloshed and chant our names!

The high-school graduation events at the end of November, with synchronised student dances, numerous presentations, and thankfully no alcohol

Some huge alternate drop dinners with some hot & heavy plate carrying, and equally strenuous plate-clearing

Moving stacks of chairs across the road to the Pullman Reef Casino with Rankin, and them constantly toppling on the uneven kerb onto the zebra crossing!

Three consecutive evening shifts in October where I was transferred to Novotel Oasis Cairns Resort with Tun, Aimee and Caitlin for one work conference's dinner events. It was a lot of fun, and nice to work in a smaller, more personal hotel

The Cairns experience is now at an end, but I will never forget those 3 months I spent in Far North Tropical Queensland, and the friends I made there. I am now in Darwin about to begin a road trip down the West Coast, so I will be writing about that as my final blog in Australia.

Thank you for reading,

Oliver

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okay done.

alright. this was basically the movie i expected the first one to be: convoluted but boring plotline, reduction of characters, nothing really amazing that stands out, stereotypical depiction of native people. yayyy. once again the backgrounds in particular are really nice! no new designs except the book's femme fatale avatar, which, slay. the music is once again so poorly incorporated into the movie i can't even. there was yodeling multiple times.

i don't have much to say beyond what i've already said. an unremarkable film. i liked the first one pretty well, but the sequel was a disappointing deviation from the spirit of both the land of oz and the first film. i'd rate this a 2 or 3 out of ten, it's basically a below average netflix animated fantasy adventure movie with a boring whiteboy protagonist. i've already talked about this. i probably wouldn't recommend unless you're an absolutely desperate oz fan. very little tincrow also smh

(also btw, i don't have a problem w giving dorothy a love interest, or a heteronormative relationship. she can be a teen girl with a boyfriend sure! but she should be a teen girl with a boyfriend she picks up and carries bridal style. and she has already dealt w much bigger threats in oz, treating him like a savior of her dreamland is absurd and ridiculous. i don't have a problem w dorothy's boyfriend i have a problem w dorothy's boyfriend tim)

ok i'm watching the sequel now. fantastic return to oz (2019), i ended up liking the first one but i'm not so sure abt this one. i think zeb is in this????

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damn this sound design is ASS

the tune when urfin is making the wooden soldiers lmaooo what is going on it's so loud

none of the music is bad per se, it just is really mistimed and the balance is wayyy off

btw the head soldier has a fantastic design, love the wheat in his hat. adorable

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

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hi omg thank you so much for the wall of text @normal-looking-male this is amazing

true dorothy didn't have much bonding time with anyone :/ i wish we'd gotten a little more characterization from her, though i felt that especially at the final battle she at least demonstrated some personality traits. absolutely agree the 'original dorothy's granddaughter' thing is totally unnecessary, if you wanna modernize oz just do it. like. you can just have it set in the present lol (though i see why they wanted to have it this way, since so many plot details revolve around things the original dorothy did in oz before. like all the ozians guide her through the plot by remembering what happened last time and whatnot)

thanks for the extra insight into urfin's backstory and character!! i really wish the movie had established that he's also a munchkin who's just been isolated, it never actually reveals why he's so lonely and that lends him so much more intrigue in my mind. you make a good point about his not seeming very villainous, i think i'd agree that he still wants the love and attention of others even though he says he doesn't want it anymore. wough "he knows he doesn't like this but he cannot stop himself" YESSS omg, that's exactly what it is!!! maybe that's why he still seems like a complex character? he hasn't abandoned any semblance of 'niceness' or humanity, though he'd like everyone to believe he has. hmmm i should read the original, if urfin has a more fleshed-out motivation there it sounds really interesting! but yeah in the movie as a standalone i think there was something missing - that backstory or even an establishment of why he's so lonely in the first place would have been helpful to know.

i wish that ogre stayed dead holy shit. ridiculous absurd unnecessary character lmao (and in the second movie his 'glowup' is both hilarious and awful for all the wrong reasons. why is he suddenly an ally to dorothy (in fact the strongest of her allies in that movie)? why is the stereotyping even more extreme?? idk man it's. it was hard to watch

thanks for correcting my spelling of milena's name, tbh i wasn't even sure if i'd caught it correctly haha

i did end up watching the second one!! absolutely infuriating, i hated the knight/damsel plotline, who the hell is tim, why is nobody helpful in this movie except the damn ogre. oh boy yeah it was definitely not as good as the first, which is only okay to begin with imo.

once again thank you!! absolutely loved your insight this is super interesting!! you've inspired me to read volkov, at least sooner than i otherwise would lol, and it was fun to see someone else's thoughts on this movie!! :)

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

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okay finished! final thoughts

first of all, it's not a bad looking movie. it's not my personal preference for animation, but it's a pretty standard 3d style and it's not bad by any means. and the backgrounds, especially architecture and a couple particular landscapes, are really beautiful. the lighting on some of the backgrounds is quite nice. character designs are a bit caricaturish and very cartoony, hyper-shape-language-y, and a bit too smooth and oblong for my taste, but there were some really solid designs. the scarecrow is passable, the tin woodman is decent, the lion i'm not a fan of but he's fine enough as a lion. favorite design was probably the wooden soldier general, his wheat hat and warm color scheme were really fun. the bear rug was creative, keeping the belly as quilt/fabric was a good idea. i'm personally not a fan of the puppet thing, but it's an acceptable design "objectively" speaking. (this is all based on character design not personality or characterization)

if appearance is pretty good, though, sound is another matter. i don't want to be too harsh, since this is obviously a fairly cheap dub for a movie that wasn't expected to do well anyways. the music feels off, poorly timed, and awkwardly transitioned to/between. sound effects are fine but a little sparse. voice acting varies wildly. i didn't like urfin's va much, the filler words and extra noises were really clunky and forced and he didn't come across as a villain at all. the puppet did come across as a devil-on-the-shoulder-type trickster villain thanks to the va, i thought they were annoying but they did fulfill that archetypical role. the scarecrow's va was just sorta flat (which was too bad, his lines were generally a bit better-written than some of the others') but not bad - i just don't think the voice fits the character bc i associate ray bolger or the oz no mahoutsukai anime voice w him, not the higher-pitched, younger-sounding voice he was given here. the tin woodman's voice acting was unremarkable in that i can't remember any particular things that stood out, i think he was pretty good overall. lion mostly same, but i felt his voice was a bit off as well? still fine tho. dorothy did a good job! i actually liked her quite a bit, she wasn't super fleshed out but she has some nice moments of kindness, determination, and braveness, which are all pretty important dorothy characteristics. she's enjoyable to watch and i like her design (again, nothing to write home about, but the hair is cute and overall she's quite differentiated from the world around her so the simplicity actually works in her favor)

shoutout to the va of the crow messenger!!!!! they did so well omg best actor in this movie. they put their whole pussy into it and even with the okayish cheaply-translated script it was so fun to watch and listen to their character. the true hero of this movie fr and my favorite.

TOTO. toto. what is going on with toto. he's???? making pop culture references????? they were in a cave and he said "#lovingthiscave" like pronouncing the hashtag??? he calls dorothy "girlfriend" at one point???? it feels so weird and ridiculous. oh yeah he can talk and his voice is okay for a dog who is on tiktok. it's kinda jarring but honestly i think i'd rather it be that way

queer section bc we all knew it was coming. yeah tincrow is definitely present here, they hang out constantly during the plot, they compliment each other, scarecrow sacrifices everything to save nick (im calling him that bc it's shorter than 'tin woodman' but he is not called nick in this movie), they escape together and have a nice b-plot important support mission. presented similarly to many other animated oz adaptations, they're both quite smart and kind but each is slightly 'more' of their respective trait. and they would die for each other a thousand times. we know how it is.

also. the thing with the tigers i am 100% serious it's so weird. they almost fulfill a role like those 'two idiots' characters (the two sailors in pirates of the caribbean who are always onscreen together, for example, or the pair of hapless skeletons from the adventures of clutch powers) - but not quite. they're just kinda there. they're on their own team. are they being paid by the lion to guard the entrance to the forest and welcome dorothy??? i don't know. they hang out, scare off an ogre, then one asks the other "what do you want to do now" and he says "go home" and the first one follows the second one out into the dark night and their voices are so like. sultry and it's so surreal i think they fucked i am so serious right now. i'm past the time i read homoeroticism into normal situations honestly and this was so blatant and weird and i think it was their delivery??? but like the timing and the way it was done was just so something. the next scene where we see them they're lounging in a field just casually in the morning and one asks the other "now what" and he says "let's get lunch" and it's all so charged and something is going on. i can't believe im saying this i don't care if the saber tooth modern tigers in a cheap oz spinoff are gay this was just deeply - not uncomfortable, but extremely substantial and just surreal to me.

also there's a more stereotypically coded ogre who is a chef and speaks with the "gay accent" with lisp and all, it's not really anything to speak of he just is fulfilling that sort of trope of the bad guy chef who is just in it for the divine flavors darling. you know the type. i don't reallly care idk

end of the queer section. there was no ozma :(

okay, in terms of plot. it's pretty decent. nothing so groundbreaking. the friends of dorothy are presented in a pretty traditional fashion, in keeping with the standards set by various oz adaptations. they didn't really do anything unique with those characters. i can't speak on the adaptation of urfin from book to screen, as i unfortunately haven't read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers yet - i have it saved, just haven't gotten around to it :( so i don't have an opinion on that. however, i can say that he wasn't presented as a villain i can love to hate. more of an annoying guy who staged a one-man coup and then lost all his resources and everyone forgot about him. he doesn't feel dangerous or threatening - i think perhaps because we didnt see a truly dangerous application of the powder of life until long after he's taken over the emerald city. other than the wooden soldiers, of course, but they are so easily defeated by dorothy and toto in their first two minutes in oz that they don't feel like a threat. this is mainly a pacing issue, if they'd let the threat of the soldiers grow for a while before they were shown to be stoppable it would've felt more high-stakes when fighting them off.

the focus on the lion was kind of nice! he's often put aside for the scarecrow or sometimes nick, so seeing him as dorothy's guide here was quite enjoyable and made him seem very important as a character - this can be difficult to pull off, as he's (imo) often more forgettable in adaptations, so i appreciate this aspect of the movie.

also!!! a big bonus!!! as i mentioned earlier, this movie had the chance to do a Big Reveal that Someone Loves Urfin After All, so it's time for a redemption arc. but they didn't do it!! he rejects the idea that he secretly wants to be loved, and instead seeks to crush his enemies. and he rejects malayna's (sorry if spelling wrong) token of love outright in acknowledgment of his growth (/negative) as a character! he doesn't care about people accepting or loving him anymore - he just wants the power and fear factor. this is the one thing i think urfin's portrayal did quite well. also yayyy no romance saves the day plot! i'm down for it sometimes, but it doesn't need to be the only way for a story to end so this was nice. seeing actual defeat of a villain, not just "gasp someone loved me after all, i now regret all my actions and become a perfect person immediately". wahoo

i would've liked to see: a better performance from urfin's voice actor. actually showing that dorothy has returned home and is not just indefinitely hurtling over the deadly desert (the movie ends with her disappearing lmao). better designs for the horrendous silver slippers. perhaps a more creative take on specifically the tincrow dynamic. a more interesting lion design. more screen time for that crow and the wooden general they were so cool!! but these are fairly mild criticisms.

overall, i'd give this movie like... 6.5 or 7 stars. nothing groundbreaking, nothing really astoundingly compelling, but i did enjoy watching it. if you're an oz fan looking for a nice adaptation with some really good moments and nothing horrible in it, i'd definitely recommend. for the average viewer, this will probably just be a standard boring cheap kids' movie, but still a fun time. i will probably not be watching again for a while, but i hear there's a sequel and i absolutely want to watch it (it looks worse) and it's a good movie to just have on the back burner. a pretty good experience :)

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

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are the tigers in. a sexual relationship

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

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dorothy's little excited/relieved animation!!!! awwh that's so cute omg

the callback to woz 1939 in the departure scene was nice if overdone

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

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it wasn't the tin man it just looked like it

also - power of love villain redemption trope subverted!!! that's actually so cool i really appreciate that as a literary device

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

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not sure if the tin man droideka implosion animation is so cool or so stupid... electric glow all over, shrink and implode, float into the air as a glowing ball w spikes, vibrate back and forth like a png, then disappear

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

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'malayna told me to give this to you' no bitch she didnt! you don't know her name!! some munchkin you never met gave that to you!

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

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wait wait waitwait mortality mention? scarefaux die? fr? (also don't buy the 'powder of life doesn't create real living beings' thing bc. jack pumpkinhead scraps sawhorse etc) ('those ones aren't in this movie it's not canon' blocked. turn into an oyster. the powder of life makes real beings)

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

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me when i'm in a fucking annoying competition and my opponents are the bad guys in this movie

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

[instantpansies]

oh my WORD. tin woodman complimented scarecrow on his brain and he actually did the 'aww really? teehee' pose. literally would be blushing if he had the ability. exploding them

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

[instantpansies]

the interiors!!!!!! spectacular designs!!!

i'm not generally a huge fan of this animation style but honestly all the landscapes look really good. the cave and inside the emerald city throne room are my favorites so far, the meadow/pink forest is pretty nice too.

also holy shit the weird tension between the tigers is so real. it just cut to them lounging in a field and like??? i can't explain it but something is there

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow

[instantpansies]

oh my word. thrown in a cell with your lover's lifeless body. in typical oz fashion mortality isn't taken seriously at all but like. the situation is sure something

AUGH HE'S SAVING HIM AWW SCARECROW IS THE BEST RESCUE MISSION TIME!!! wooden soldier gets a good cop bad cop lego movie moment. good for him

ok i'm watching fantastic journey to oz (2017). english dub bc i don't speak russian

expectations: low i think this'll be an interesting movie, but not for the reasons it wants to be... i've never actually read urfin jus and his wooden soldiers (of which this is an adaptation), i'm sorry to everyone who loves that book i'm sure this is not a good introduction lol off the bat (from the trailer) not loving the designs, except dorothy who is ngl kinda slaying, if in a boring way. the silver slippers are atrocious. what is up with toto. the scarecrow's voice is so wrong. tin woodman looks fine if basic. i'm liking the book-accurate munchkins tho, and the emerald city design is pretty decent! we'll see how everything is, more to follow